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One of these unseen observers, a gentleman, was youthful, and had an +air of high breeding and refinement, and a face marked with intellect, though +otherwise of unprepossessing aspect. His features wore even an ominous, though +somewhat mirthful expression, while he pointed his long forefinger at the girl, +and seemed to regard her as a creature completely within the scope of his +influence. +</p> + +<p> +“The charm works!” said he, in a low, but emphatic whisper. +</p> + +<p> +“Do you know, Edward Hamilton,—since so you choose to be +named,—do you know,” said the lady beside him, “that I have +almost a mind to break the spell at once? What if the lesson should prove too +severe! True, if my ward could be thus laughed out of her fantastic nonsense, +she might be the better for it through life. But then, she is such a delicate +creature! And, besides, are you not ruining your own chance, by putting forward +this shadow of a rival?” +</p> + +<p> +“But will he not vanish into thin air, at my bidding?” rejoined +Edward Hamilton. “Let the charm work!” +</p> + +<p> +The girl’s slender and sylph-like figure, tinged with radiance from the +sunset clouds, and overhung with the rich drapery of the silken curtains, and +set within the deep frame of the window, was a perfect picture; or, rather, it +was like the original loveliness in a painter’s fancy, from which the +most finished picture is but an imperfect copy. Though her occupation excited +so much interest in the two spectators, she was merely gazing at a miniature +which she held in her hand, encased in white satin and red morocco; nor did +there appear to be any other cause for the smile of mockery and malice with +which Hamilton regarded her. +</p> + +<p> +“The charm works!” muttered he, again. “Our pretty +Sylvia’s scorn will have a dear retribution!” +</p> + +<p> +At this moment the girl raised her eyes, and, instead of a life-like semblance +of the miniature, beheld the ill-omened shape of Edward Hamilton, who now +stepped forth from his concealment in the shrubbery. +</p> + +<p> +Sylvia Etherege was an orphan girl, who had spent her life, till within a few +months past, under the guardianship, and in the secluded dwelling, of an old +bachelor uncle. While yet in her cradle, she had been the destined bride of a +cousin, who was no less passive in the betrothal than herself. Their future +union had been projected, as the means of uniting two rich estates, and was +rendered highly expedient, if not indispensable, by the testamentary +dispositions of the parents on both sides. Edgar Vaughan, the promised +bridegroom, had been bred from infancy in Europe, and had never seen the +beautiful girl whose heart he was to claim as his inheritance. But already, for +several years, a correspondence had been kept up between tine cousins, and had +produced an intellectual intimacy, though it could but imperfectly acquaint +them with each other’s character. +</p> + +<p> +Sylvia was shy, sensitive, and fanciful; and her guardian’s secluded +habits had shut her out from even so much of the world as is generally open to +maidens of her age. She had been left to seek associates and friends for +herself in the haunts of imagination, and to converse with them, sometimes in +the language of dead poets, oftener in the poetry of her own mind. The +companion whom she chiefly summoned up was the cousin with whose idea her +earliest thoughts had been connected. She made a vision of Edgar Vaughan, and +tinted it with stronger hues than a mere fancy-picture, yet graced it with so +many bright and delicate perfections, that her cousin could nowhere have +encountered so dangerous a rival. To this shadow she cherished a romantic +fidelity. With its airy presence sitting by her side, or gliding along her +favorite paths, the loneliness of her young life was blissful; her heart was +satisfied with love, while yet its virgin purity was untainted by the +earthliness that the touch of a real lover would have left there. Edgar Vaughan +seemed to be conscious of her character; for, in his letters, he gave her a +name that was happily appropriate to the sensitiveness of her disposition, the +delicate peculiarity of her manners, and the ethereal beauty both of her mind +and person. Instead of Sylvia, he called her Sylph,—with the prerogative +of a cousin and a lover,—his dear Sylph Etherege. +</p> + +<p> +When Sylvia was seventeen, her guardian died, and she passed under the care of +Mrs. Grosvenor, a lady of wealth and fashion, and Sylvia’s nearest +relative, though a distant one. While an inmate of Mrs. Grosvenor’s +family, she still preserved somewhat of her life-long habits of seclusion, and +shrank from a too familiar intercourse with those around her. Still, too, she +was faithful to her cousin, or to the shadow which bore his name. +</p> + +<p> +The time now drew near when Edgar Vaughan, whose education had been completed +by an extensive range of travel, was to revisit the soil of his nativity. +Edward Hamilton, a young gentleman, who had been Vaughan’s companion, +both in his studies and rambles, had already recrossed the Atlantic, bringing +letters to Mrs. Grosvenor and Sylvia Etherege. These credentials insured him an +earnest welcome, which, however, on Sylvia’s part, was not followed by +personal partiality, or even the regard that seemed due to her cousin’s +most intimate friend. As she herself could have assigned no cause for her +repugnance, it might be termed instinctive. Hamilton’s person, it is +true, was the reverse of attractive, especially when beheld for the first time. +Yet, in the eyes of the most fastidious judges, the defect of natural grace was +compensated by the polish of his manners, and by the intellect which so often +gleamed through his dark features. Mrs. Grosvenor, with whom he immediately +became a prodigious favorite, exerted herself to overcome Sylvia’s +dislike. But, in this matter, her ward could neither be reasoned with nor +persuaded. The presence of Edward Hamilton was sure to render her cold, shy, +and distant, abstracting all the vivacity from her deportment, as if a cloud +had come betwixt her and the sunshine. +</p> + +<p> +The simplicity of Sylvia’s demeanor rendered it easy for so keen an +observer as Hamilton to detect her feelings. Whenever any slight circumstance +made him sensible of them, a smile might be seen to flit over the young +man’s sallow visage. None, that had once beheld this smile, were in any +danger of forgetting it; whenever they recalled to memory the features of +Edward Hamilton, they were always duskily illuminated by this expression of +mockery and malice. +</p> + +<p> +In a few weeks after Hamilton’s arrival, he presented to Sylvia Etherege +a miniature of her cousin, which, as he informed her, would have been delivered +sooner, but was detained with a portion of his baggage. This was the miniature +in the contemplation of which we beheld Sylvia so absorbed, at the commencement +of our story. Such, in truth, was too often the habit of the shy and musing +girl. The beauty of the pictured countenance was almost too perfect to +represent a human creature, that had been born of a fallen and world-worn race, +and had lived to manhood amid ordinary troubles and enjoyments, and must become +wrinkled with age and care. It seemed too bright for a thing formed of dust, +and doomed to crumble into dust again. Sylvia feared that such a being would be +too refined and delicate to love a simple girl like her. Yet, even while her +spirit drooped with that apprehension, the picture was but the masculine +counterpart of Sylph Etherege’s sylphlike beauty. There was that +resemblance between her own face and the miniature which is said often to exist +between lovers whom Heaven has destined for each other, and which, in this +instance, might be owing to the kindred blood of the two parties. Sylvia felt, +indeed, that there was something familiar in the countenance, so like a friend +did the eyes smile upon her, and seem to imply a knowledge of her thoughts. She +could account for this impression only by supposing that, in some of her +day-dreams, imagination had conjured up the true similitude of her distant and +unseen lover. +</p> + +<p> +But now could Sylvia give a brighter semblance of reality to those day-dreams. +Clasping the miniature to her heart, she could summon forth, from that haunted +cell of pure and blissful fantasies, the life-like shadow, to roam with her in +the moonlight garden. Even at noontide it sat with her in the arbor, when the +sunshine threw its broken flakes of gold into the clustering shade. The effect +upon her mind was hardly less powerful than if she had actually listened to, +and reciprocated, the vows of Edgar Vaughan; for, though the illusion never +quite deceived her, yet the remembrance was as distinct as of a remembered +interview. Those heavenly eyes gazed forever into her soul, which drank at them +as at a fountain, and was disquieted if reality threw a momentary cloud +between. She heard the melody of a voice breathing sentiments with which her +own chimed in like music. O happy, yet hapless girl! Thus to create the being +whom she loves, to endow him with all the attributes that were most fascinating +to her heart, and then to flit with the airy creature into the realm of fantasy +and moonlight, where dwelt his dreamy kindred! For her lover wiled Sylvia away +from earth, which seemed strange, and dull, and darksome, and lured her to a +country where her spirit roamed in peaceful rapture, deeming that it had found +its home. Many, in their youth, have visited that land of dreams, and wandered +so long in its enchanted groves, that, when banished thence, they feel like +exiles everywhere. +</p> + +<p> +The dark-browed Edward Hamilton, like the villain of a tale, would often glide +through the romance wherein poor Sylvia walked. Sometimes, at the most blissful +moment of her ecstasy, when the features of the miniature were pictured +brightest in the air, they would suddenly change, and darken, and be +transformed into his visage. And always, when such change occurred, the +intrusive visage wore that peculiar smile with which Hamilton had glanced at +Sylvia. +</p> + +<p> +Before the close of summer, it was told Sylvia Etherege that Vaughan had +arrived from France, and that she would meet him—would meet, for the +first time, the loved of years—that very evening. We will not tell how +often and how earnestly she gazed upon the miniature, thus endeavoring to +prepare herself for the approaching interview, lest the throbbing of her +timorous heart should stifle the words of welcome. While the twilight grew +deeper and duskier, she sat with Mrs. Grosvenor in an inner apartment, lighted +only by the softened gleam from an alabaster lamp, which was burning at a +distance on the centre-table of the drawing-room. Never before had Sylph +Etherege looked so sylph-like. She had communed with a creature of imagination, +till her own loveliness seemed but the creation of a delicate and dreamy fancy. +Every vibration of her spirit was visible in her frame, as she listened to the +rattling of wheels and the tramp upon the pavement, and deemed that even the +breeze bore the sound of her lover’s footsteps, as if he trode upon the +viewless air. Mrs. Grosvenor, too, while she watched the tremulous flow of +Sylvia’s feelings, was deeply moved; she looked uneasily at the agitated +girl, and was about to speak, when the opening of the street-door arrested the +words upon her lips. +</p> + +<p> +Footsteps ascended the staircase, with a confident and familiar tread, and some +one entered the drawing-room. From the sofa where they sat, in the inner +apartment, Mrs. Grosvenor and Sylvia could not discern the visitor. +</p> + +<p> +“Sylph!” cried a voice. “Dearest Sylph! Where are you, sweet +Sylph Etherege? Here is your Edgar Vaughan!” +</p> + +<p> +But instead of answering, or rising to meet her lover,—who had greeted +her by the sweet and fanciful name, which, appropriate as it was to her +character, was known only to him,—Sylvia grasped Mrs. Grosvenor’s +arm, while her whole frame shook with the throbbing of her heart. +</p> + +<p> +“Who is it?” gasped she. “Who calls me Sylph?” +</p> + +<p> +Before Mrs. Grosvenor could reply, the stranger entered the room, bearing the +lamp in his hand. Approaching the sofa, he displayed to Sylvia the features of +Edward Hamilton, illuminated by that evil smile, from which his face derived so +marked an individuality. +</p> + +<p> +“Is not the miniature an admirable likeness?” inquired he. +</p> + +<p> +Sylvia shuddered, but had not power to turn away her white face from his gaze. +The miniature, which she had been holding in her hand, fell down upon the +floor, where Hamilton, or Vaughan, set his foot upon it, and crushed the ivory +counterfeit to fragments. +</p> + +<p> +“There, my sweet Sylph,” he exclaimed. “It was I that created +your phantom-lover, and now I annihilate him! Your dream is rudely broken. +Awake, Sylph Etherege, awake to truth! I am the only Edgar Vaughan!” +</p> + +<p> +“We have gone too far, Edgar Vaughan,” said Mrs. Grosvenor, +catching Sylvia in her arms. The revengeful freak, which Vaughan’s +wounded vanity had suggested, had been countenanced by this lady, in the hope +of curing Sylvia of her romantic notions, and reconciling her to the truths and +realities of life. “Look at the poor child!” she continued. +“I protest I tremble for the consequences!” +</p> + +<p> +“Indeed, madam!” replied Vaughan, sneeringly, as he threw the light +of the lamp on Sylvia’s closed eyes and marble features. “Well, my +conscience is clear. I did but look into this delicate creature’s heart; +and with the pure fantasies that I found there, I made what seemed a +man,—and the delusive shadow has wiled her away to Shadow-land, and +vanished there! It is no new tale. Many a sweet maid has shared the lot of poor +Sylph Etherege!” +</p> + +<p> +“And now, Edgar Vaughan,” said Mrs. Grosvenor, as Sylvia’s +heart began faintly to throb again, “now try, in good earnest, to win +back her love from the phantom which you conjured up. If you succeed, she will +be the better, her whole life long, for the lesson we have given her.” +</p> + +<p> +Whether the result of the lesson corresponded with Mrs. Grosvenor’s +hopes, may be gathered from the closing scene of our story. It had been made +known to the fashionable world that Edgar Vaughan had returned from France, +and, under the assumed name of Edward Hamilton, had won the affections of the +lovely girl to whom he had been affianced in his boyhood. The nuptials were to +take place at an early date. One evening, before the day of anticipated bliss +arrived, Edgar Vaughan entered Mrs. Grosvenor’s drawing-room, where he +found that lady and Sylph Etherege. +</p> + +<p> +“Only that Sylvia makes no complaint,” remarked Mrs. Grosvenor, +“I should apprehend that the town air is ill-suited to her constitution. +She was always, indeed, a delicate creature; but now she is a mere gossamer. Do +but look at her! Did you ever imagine anything so fragile?” +</p> + +<p> +Vaughan was already attentively observing his mistress, who sat in a shadowy +and moonlighted recess of the room, with her dreamy eyes fixed steadfastly upon +his own. The bough of a tree was waving before the window, and sometimes +enveloped her in the gloom of its shadow, into which she seemed to vanish. +</p> + +<p> +“Yes,” he said, to Mrs. Grosvenor. “I can scarcely deem her +of the earth, earthy. No wonder that I call her Sylph! Methinks she will fade +into the moonlight, which falls upon her through the window. Or, in the open +air, she might flit away upon the breeze, like a wreath of mist!” +</p> + +<p> +Sylvia’s eyes grew yet brighter. She waved her hand to Edgar Vaughan, +with a gesture of ethereal triumph. +</p> + +<p> +“Farewell!” she said. “I will neither fade into the +moonlight, nor flit away upon the breeze. Yet you cannot keep me here!” +</p> + +<p> +There was something in Sylvia’s look and tones that startled Mrs. +Grosvenor with a terrible apprehension. But, as she was rushing towards the +girl, Vaughan held her back. +</p> + +<p> +“Stay!” cried he, with a strange smile of mockery and anguish. +“Can our sweet Sylph be going to heaven, to seek the original of the +miniature?” +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SYLPH ETHEREGE ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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